The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1887-12-16

tIdk1ng enOdiOn, n6AEL, soul, I'LL the
rays of LIES light, into a single TO-
GUS" Southern tells us Of ''the ira
grant infancy Of opening flowers flow,
ing TO his senses in a melting kiss.
Dryden mentions a spleasing kind Of
smart produced by q kiss, and then
adds:
when il. was gone the sense Of it did stay,
The sweetness cling'd upon my lips alldRy,
Like drops OF honey 10th TO fall away"
Byron's "Long, long kiss, a kiss OF
youth and love" is familiar to all,
as also Crasham's famous metaphor,
who, in bis poem on a p~rayer-book
calls a kiss Loves great artillery
The Latin poet Johannes Secundus
becomes quite eloquent upon the sub.
Ject. cit is not kiss Neava gives,n he
says. lit is nectar, it Is fragrant
breath-dew, it is nard, and thyme
and cinnamon, and honey such as bees
gather on the brows of Hymethus."
And then heexpresses arthati ii many
are given him to devourhe will soon
become immortal and partake of the
banquets of the GODS Such then, are
some OF the definitions of a kiss. We
must, however, confess that accord
ing to our way of thinking Pindar's is
by far the trnest to nature, who, when
asked what is osculation?" replied:
"Osculation, Netsie, dear,
is a learned expression, queer,
For a nice sensation.
put$my arm around your waist,
That is approximation.
You need no fear.
There's no n near;
then
oh, dearl
Nettie, that's OSCILLATION"
AS to who FIRST invented kisses. ne
have not been able to ascertain. Hap
py for lovers that he did not take out
a patentl Unhappy for him thSS he
failed to do so, for his wealth would
have exceeded that of Crcesus. And
had every mortal who ever INDUCED
in kissing made a pilgrimage TO his
grave and cast a stone upon it, as
Longfeliow tells us travellers Of old
were won't on that of Manfredi at
Beneysnto, his remains would be over
heaped by q veritable Tower or Babel.
Johannes Secundus, whom we have
already referred to, gives kisses a dI-
vine origin. He represents Cythcrea
as floating through the clouds with
her snow-whIte swans, scattering kiss
es over the fruitful soil, and as corn
first snrang nm in the fields for the use
of man,so sprang the sole remedy for
lovers pains-kisses the assuagers for
loves poignant flame. The poet
Heine, on the other hand, regards
them as the invention of a mouth all
glowing and blest:
ut kiss d and ftthought 81 nothing beside,
The fair month of May was then its pride;
The flowers were all from the earth fast
springing,
The sun was laughing, the birds were sing
ing
We shall not stop to discuss which
is right, but the first kiss OF which
there is any record is the famous kiss
which jncob gave TO naCheI at the
well. After bestowing which, we are
told that he lifted up his voice end
weptp Our readers viii doubtless re-
cal the discussion this gave rise to q
few years ago, when every editor in
the land undertook to give an ex-
PLANTATION Of the youths strange on
duct-so much SO that column after
column of newspapers were filed with
the same. We learn from ancient au-
thors that kissing was once q com
mon form of ~salutAtion between nan
and man, as also between men and
women. Herodotus, speaking of the
customs of the Persians, tells us that
sswhen they meet one another In the
streets, One may discover by tie fol-
lowing custom whether those who
meet are equals, for instead Of accost-
ing one another they kiss on the
mouth; ii one De a little inferior TO the
other they kiss the cheek, but II he be
OF a much lower rank he prostrates
himself before the other Homer, in
his Odyssey, makes the herdsman and.
swineherd, when they discover Ulys-
ses, embrace him and kiss both his
head and shoulders and, adds the
poet, Sin like manner Ulysses kissed
their heads and hands, And PEN
elGpe also, when she recognizes the
signs, of which Ulysses told her evil
IDENTIFY, t'weeping, rem straight for
ward and threw her hands around the
neck Of Ulysses and kissed his head
1t was also customary among the.
ancients for the last kiss TO be- given
by the dearest one, when at the point
Of death, and WAS q fancy OF old that
the survivor drew IN, with the last
breath OF tbe dying, their passing life.
Thus, BID makes Venus, in her
lamet over Adoris, say, "Rouse thee
q little, Adonis, and againthis last
time kiss me just so far as there Is life
III thy kiss, till from thy heart thy
spirit shall have ebbed into my lips
and soul. and Ishall have drained thy
sweet love potion and have drunk
out thy love; and I win treasure this
kiss, even as il were Ad0nis himself
since thou. Inflated one. dost fee from